Thanks to a constant energy input, active matter can self-assemble into phases with complex architectures and functionalities such as living clusters that dynamically form, reshape, and …
Designing microscopic and nanoscopic self-propelled particles and characterising their motion have become a major scientific challenge over the past few decades. To this …
W Wang, W Duan, S Ahmed, A Sen… - Accounts of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The assembly of complex structures from simpler, individual units is a hallmark of biology. Examples include the pairing of DNA strands, the assembly of protein chains into …
The past two decades have seen a remarkable progress in the development of synthetic colloidal agents which are capable of creating directed motion in an unbiased environment …
H Löwen - Europhysics Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Like ordinary molecules are composed of atoms, colloidal molecules consist of several species of colloidal particles tightly bound together. If one of these components is self …
K Dietrich, G Volpe, MN Sulaiman, D Renggli… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We study experimentally and numerically the motion of a self-phoretic active particle in two- dimensional loosely packed colloidal crystals at fluid interfaces. Two scenarios emerge …
A Subramaniam, M Kumar, S Thutupalli… - New Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Active matter systems-such as a collection of active colloidal particles-operate far from equilibrium with complex inter-particle interactions that govern their collective dynamics …
W Shan, F Zhang, K Chen - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Many types of active matter are deformable, such as epithelial cells and bacteria. To mimic the feature of deformability, we built a model called an active colloidal cell (ACC), ie a …
Biological systems exhibit large-scale self-organized dynamics and structures which enable organisms to perform the functions of life. The field of active matter strives to develop and …